
9-Step Playbook to Make Processes AI-Native
Most teams jump straight to playing with models and wonder why their AI project stalls. The image breaks down a...
Before you sell your company, run it through three filters:
Fortune. Fire. Fate
Fortune:
1. The Optionality Test - Does this exit cross the "never worry about money again" line?
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Fortune, Fire, Fate: The Exit Checklist
Most founders obsess over valuations and buyers, but skip the only thing that matters: should you actually sell. The Fortune,...

🎤 The SWIPES Email (Friday, March 13rd, 2026)
Friday, March 13th, 2026 Written by human Neville, no ai in this email. This is me writing this email....but...

Sequence Your Ambitions: One Goal At A Time
The image shows two grids of squares. In the top grid, every square is blue: every dream active, every project...
How to not be broke:
- Set a 5 year goal. “I want $x in on 1/1/2031”.
- List benchmarks where you need to be each quarter.
- Make a plan to get you to each next benchmark (and execute).
- Don’t worry about future steps, just the next step in front of you.
- Track weekly
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Set a 5-Year Money Goal and Track Weekly
Most people drift financially because they think in years but act in random Tuesdays. A 5-year money target, tracked every...

Sell Books Without Constant Promotion
The graphic says it all: one free chapter at the top, book sales dripping out the bottom. Instead of you...

Call Your Product A Lemon, Build Trust
The original Volkswagen Lemon ad looks wrong at first glance: plain Beetle photo, giant defect-slur headline, tiny body copy. In...

Stop Switching Projects: Decide, Focus, Compound
Those four slides are a hit list of how to quietly destroy your life and business: never decide, never commit,...

The 8% Return Illusion Exposed
The image smacks you with the truth: the neat 8 percent line your broker loves is a fairy tale. On...
I have 12 failed businesses.
Audiobooktopia. Podman. WP Mechanic. P2P Lending News. And more.
People see MarketBeat and assume I have the golden touch.
What they don't see is the decade of failed experiments that preceded it.
Why My 12 Failures Built MarketBeat
Everyone sees MarketBeat and assumes it was a straight shot up and to the right. In reality, it was paved...

Steal Replit's Gangster Growth Tactic
This frame looks simple: a founder in a hoodie talking into a mic. But Replit is quietly running a gangster...

Facebook and Instagram Exclusive: $79 Furnace Tune-Up
This Facebook and Instagram exclusive from Aire One takes a boring furnace tune-up and turns it into a scrolling showstopper....
One of the best VCs of all time just wrote that this is the most important principles when building a successful career slash company...
"Of all the tools available for growth, an engaged peer network might be the most powerful and beneficial.
It's one of the most under-discussed elements in personal and professional development."
That investor is Bill Gurley. He wrote that in his book Runnin Down a Dream.
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Stop Ignoring Your Founder Peer Network
Most founders obsess over product, funding, and hires, then treat their peer network like a side quest. The people you...

Be Contrarian, Expect to Look Stupid
Freeze-frame the reel: a founder sits calmly, subtitle across his chest saying, "they would hang up on me." No pitch...

Shoot 3 Takes, AI Generates the Rest
Two people sit on a quiet stage in orange armchairs, but the caption does the shouting: "They used to shoot...

Code Is Cheap, Distribution Is The Moat
Those screenshots tell the whole story. A Kindle highlighter, a personal bookmarking hub, and a tiny 2FA helper menu app...

Collect Small Wins To Prove You Can Freelance
Before you quit your job to freelance, you need proof you can actually deliver. Not a dream, not a vision...

Fan Out Flyers, People Will Take Them
Same table, same flyer, totally different results. In the first photo, a sad little stack sits in the middle of...

Exact Nest-Egg Targets for 3%, 4%, 5% Withdrawals
This visual nails the question every future retiree secretly Googles: How big does my nest egg actually need to be?...
I scraped the Hampton Slack for book recs
1,000+ founders, 18 months of data.
Here's what people who’ve built companies are reading:
Psychology of Money - Housel
Die With Zero - Perkins...
What 1,000 Founders Actually Read
Scrape 18 months of a private founder community and you do not get fluffy airport books. You get what 1,000...
Action is the foundational key to all success.— Pablo Picasso

5 Reasons to Upgrade Your HVAC Before Winter
This split-screen HVAC photo, half rusted and half brand-new, sells harder than a page of specs. Paired with the line...
Turns out HubSpot isn't dead. 💀
I gave Claude Code 30 days of AppSumo software costs ($100,000) total.
Asked it to analyze cost, effort, maintenance of replicating all the software we are using.
It found ~$500 / month in costs but many of the "dead" SaaS products it did not recommend changing.
...
Why Building HubSpot In-House Isn't Worth It
On paper, rebuilding HubSpot in-house sounds sexy: full control, no license fees, your logo on everything. In reality, it’s like...

Nathan Barry: Get Pre-Orders Before You Build
In the image, a relaxed founder sits on a couch, coffee in hand, with big bold text above his head:...